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prietors. At the expiration of the twenty years the mill to be for the use of the township in which it was erected.

It is an interesting circumstance that the site upon which Alexander Gibson's mills at Marysville stand today, was selected by the Canada Company so long ago as the year 1765, as the most desirable mill site on the river. The first allusion to this matter is contained in the memorial of Captain Beamsley Glasier on behalf of Captain Thomas Falconer and others of the Canada Company, for lands on the St. John river, read at a meeting of the Governor and Council of Nova Scotia, on Dec. 14, 1764. The memorial states in effect that if there should not be any river, leading from the main River St. John, proper for erecting mills within the tract applied for, then—as settlements cannot be carried on without a mill—the memorialists pray that they be granted any river that may be found fit for the purpose by their committee, with a tract of 20,000 acres of timber land as near the mills to be erected as possible. A grant was accordingly made of 20,000 acres at the River Nashwank on Oct. 19, 1765, which tract, combined with the adjoining 20,000 acres granted with the township of Sunbury, was called New Town.

Among the sixty-eight members of the Canada Company those most active in their efforts to effect the settlement of the townships were probably Beamsley Glasier, Thomas Falconer, Nathanial Rogers, Colonel Frederick Haldimand, Charles Morris, Richard Shorne, Colonel William Spry, Philip John Livingston, William Hazen and James Simonds. The particulars that follow are to be regarded as supplementary to those already given in the fifth paper of the original Portland Point series.

Shortly after obtaining the grants of their townships